Hacker News: thehappypm

New comment by thehappypm in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

thehappypm — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:49:02 +0000

That isn’t cruelty. It’s immigration policy that the rest of the world already has

New comment by thehappypm in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

thehappypm — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:01:58 +0000

All cars require a workforce to maintain though.

New comment by thehappypm in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

thehappypm — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:10:25 +0000

Spirit seemed to enjoy making their customers hate them. everyone who liked Spirit had to explain themselves (like you did) because their reputation was awful. It was a trainwreck of a brand.

New comment by thehappypm in "Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125k years ago (2025)"

thehappypm — Sun, 03 May 2026 04:13:12 +0000

Link?

New comment by thehappypm in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

thehappypm — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:20:39 +0000

Exposing the wealthy is pretty standard journalism

New comment by thehappypm in "Honda is killing its EVs"

thehappypm — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:08:15 +0000

Universities

New comment by thehappypm in "Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well"

thehappypm — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 03:02:55 +0000

A more accurate description of code is that it’s a depreciating asset, perhaps, or an asset that requires maintenance cost. Neither of which is a liability

New comment by thehappypm in "Golfing Is Not Rowing"

thehappypm — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:18:51 +0000

“A golf game is 65-75 swings over ~5 hours.”

What about the back nine though?

New comment by thehappypm in "The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora"

thehappypm — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:24:25 +0000

It’s also setting a precedent that IP usage requires a contract. Never mind that the contract is bonkers!

New comment by thehappypm in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

thehappypm — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:40:15 +0000

Energy is very cheap for data centers. have you ever looked up wholesale energy rates? It’s like a cent per kilowatt hour.

New comment by thehappypm in "A Tale of Two AI Failures: Debugging a Simple Bug with LLMs"

thehappypm — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 03:52:18 +0000

tl;dr: custom, naïve Concatenation formatting implementation can cause bugs

New comment by thehappypm in "Nano Banana Pro"

thehappypm — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 03:29:10 +0000

There’s nothing basic about billing.

New comment by thehappypm in "Being poor vs. being broke"

thehappypm — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:35:16 +0000

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. ... But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-575-0550...

New comment by thehappypm in "Solarpunk is happening in Africa"

thehappypm — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 01:30:44 +0000

Kenya is an equatorial country so they basically have steady ~12 hours of sunlight every day year round. Pretty cool!

New comment by thehappypm in "ProEnergy repurposes jet engines to power data centers"

thehappypm — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:18:15 +0000

They should just put one on a windmill and make it to brrrr

New comment by thehappypm in "Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video"

thehappypm — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 22:52:30 +0000

Wikipedia was never a primary source to begin with

New comment by thehappypm in "Argentine peso weakens to fresh low despite US interventions"

thehappypm — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:27:11 +0000

If America saves Argentina, and Argentina becomes a powerful country again, that is a powerful ally we could have for a century.

New comment by thehappypm in "United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet"

thehappypm — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:47:14 +0000

Is it possible that this was a bullet?

A 50 cal bullet is estimated to reach 15,000 feet if fired straight up.

But this is Colorado: in the most extreme scenario, standing atop Mount Elbert, you’re already at ~15,000 feet.

Combine these two — and account for the dramatically reduced air resistance along the bullet’s path starting from high altitidue — you could conceivably get a bullet that high

Some dope standing at high elevation blasting bullets into the sky in Colorado seems as plausible as a meteor

New comment by thehappypm in "New England's last coal plant has stopped operating, according to its owners"

thehappypm — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 02:57:36 +0000

There actually is some coal in New England, and if there was (for some reason) a desire for New England to be energy independent, coal might be part of the mix as a result. This article discusses some less-successful attempts to get into that coal.. and it’s delightful to see the date of its publication.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/massachusetts-coa...

New comment by thehappypm in "$19B Wiped Out in Crypto's Biggest Liquidation"

thehappypm — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:30:57 +0000

Is insider trading even illegal with bitcoin?